Animats

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by Animats 2mo ago
So why does it take 5-10 seconds from card presented to accepted at Starbucks and CVS?
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Most of these things have awful plots. As yet, the AI systems used are not very good at plotting. If given a screenplay and character sheets, they can do reasonably well. But the "generate a 60 episode drama from one prompt" jobs
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by Animats 2mo ago
> As someone who originally comes from a field that cannot be consumed by AI anytime soon (food service)... That's a cost problem, not a technology problem.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xop9py8zBY
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> He is totally expecting that the next shift will be that gen ai video will become good enough to be considered the master (ie no need to film) and he is already transferring his skills as a camera operator into prompting and AI assiste
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This is apparently based on Automerge.[1] It sounds like a really good idea. Is it a good enough idea to sync MMO game clients and servers? Paper from 2012, last Automerge site update in 2025. Why isn't this everywhere? [1] https:&#x2
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It's a staple of Yelp restaurants. Yelp considers "fish" and "salmon" to be synonyms. Try to search Yelp for a place that serves trout.
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That's surprisingly easy. It's been done for chickens. All that was necessary was to put groups of chickens in cages, and keep only the cage groups that were the best egg-layers. After only a few generations, chicken-on-chicken vi
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by Animats 2mo ago
> I don't think infinite customizeability is a problem. Poor default configurations are the problem when you build in the ability to customize. This is a classic IDE problem. The IDE has a preferred directory layout it wants, and so
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Did they publish the prompt? It looks AI-generated. All that detail. Short words in decorative fonts. AI doesn't know what "Midway" means in a fair context.
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> At best, it’ll be a situation where the US market is segregated from the rest of the world: US auto consumers will be buying inferior vehicles from the rest of world that are more expensive to buy and own. That's where we are now.
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by Animats 2mo ago
Home electrical load safety is based on distribution being a tree, with a breaker for each branch. The branch breaker will trip if there's an overload on that branch. Outlet strips with their own circuit breakers are sub-branches. This
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That's what Google is for.
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"The moderation panel provided a safe space for Rust moderators to discuss the challenges they face, with support from Q (head moderator of Hachyderm). The Project culture discussion examined sources of disempowerment for maintainers
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Delve alert!
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POV: An AI replaced your job this morning [video](youtube.com)
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by Animats 2mo ago
There are several variations on this idea, and the web sites are confusing. First, there are ones that are just a big UPS. You plug them into the wall, and plug loads into them. They may try to level your power usage. No problem with that.
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This is why Google's browser business needs to be separated from Google's search business, as illegal vertical integration under antitrust law.
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They're totally at the mercy of world rare earth prices, which are manipulated by China. But they now have some cushion from government and GM funcing.
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Subway and trolley traction power is at those levels. SF Muni overhead is 600VDC. BART is 1000VDC. Caltrain is 25,000VAC, because it was wired for high speed rail.
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I've met the type. But usually, they're on the marketing side, not the ones who develop something. I knew one who blew through 8 figures and ended up an alcoholic, then dead. The startup market rewards first to market and first t
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by Animats 2mo ago
> St. Paul's writing has this effect on people. Huh? Corinthians (Paul's First Letter to the Christians at Corinth) is a policy memo. He's trying to get his organization running properly.
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Once it was working, operation was like this: [1] The siphon recorder produced a squiggly line, which could be read as a code similar to Morse code. Not clicks, though. The cable had so much inductance that the data rate was very limited. [
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> I am currently staying in an AirBnB of a 60 floor tower. ICE Condominiums Tower I, Toronto?[1] > elevators need a proper check to see if they are full, and if so skip floors. Elevator load measurement is an option you can buy.[2] So
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> The class turned out to be more or less “A Letter (singular) of Paul:” we spent the semester reading Paul’s letter to the Romans, at a rate of about 3 sentences per week. Per week! That's not a liberal education. That's relig
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> For non-hobbyists trying to extract information from it, it becomes an effort of self flagellation. Yes. It's a terrible article about an important subject. Over the last 20 years of US law, patents have been weakened, and trade s
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by Animats 2mo ago
Put a 22 story building on the site of the Marina Safeway? Ugh. Besides, most of the jobs in SF will be done by AI soon. Look what's happening to SOMA.
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"Is assisted suicide covered by the severance terms?"
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Why are you assuming that the human is in charge? Needing a human to drive the AI is probably a transitional phase.
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The classic nostalgia version of this is the opening of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982). Ridgemont Mall in the movie is the Sherman Oaks Galleria, which has appeared in at least 12 movies, and is still operating as a mall. [
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Another predator that went through a genetic choke point. Cheetahs did, too.[1] Cheetahs survived, but they are so similar genetically that they get the same illnesses, and skin grafts between unrelated cheetahs are not rejected. [1] https

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